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Who else thinks Matt tailored his FJ wager on Friday so he'd hit $1m while also getting a palindrome?
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That was the plan all along, and that's why he never corrected that trailing 1 in his total winnings.
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Sep 26, 2021 18:46
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ninjahedgehog posted:Emma might be the giant-killer with the best streak afterwards though, there's a real trend of upset winners going on to get trounced the next game unfortunately. wow, i didn't know Victoria Groce was the one who beat Dave Madden, she might legitimately be the best trivia player on the planet right now. that's a trip
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Sep 26, 2021 21:06
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Island Nation posted:The details are a bit fuzzy but I'll try: James also hit the Daily Double on the very first clue of the game.
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Sep 27, 2021 03:03
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RC and Moon Pie posted:James also hit the Daily Double on the very first clue of the game. I hate the DD hunting so I was happy when it hosed him over. I wonder if I'd remember Nancy Zerg if she didn't have a video game name.
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Sep 28, 2021 15:21
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FYI: NYC (Philly maybe) won't air Jeopardy at 7 due to the NJ Governor debate. It'll be on at 3am
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Sep 28, 2021 22:55
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So did one of the writers' kids come up with tonight's Final Jeopardy based on what they learned in school that day? 
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Sep 29, 2021 01:02
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More likely it was a Snapple cap.
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Sep 29, 2021 01:04
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That was insanely easy if you've ever looked at a map lmao
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Sep 29, 2021 01:09
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That final was so great lol. Mayim has settled out much better than during the summer in my opinion. My only improvements are I wish she would help the audience when the question is generic. Tonight there was “What is Jackson?” and “What is <some other common surname>”. Help us confirm we got the right one. Also I liked when they briefly had the FJ category over the answer.
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Sep 29, 2021 02:27
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Hed posted:Also I liked when they briefly had the FJ category over the answer. They’ve been doing that all season, it’s a nice QoL update of the show for the viewers at home that I really like.
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Sep 29, 2021 02:36
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Yeah, Biyalik is a much better host but she's still a terrible person. Speaking of, John Oliver has chimed in and while he can be annoying I will always enjoy his dunking on the bad J! decisions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-6crIeCZiQ&t=48s
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Sep 29, 2021 03:47
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zakharov posted:That was insanely easy if you've ever looked at a map lmao Would love to hear how they decided "which continent is the middle" should be a Final Jeopardy.
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Sep 29, 2021 15:30
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GhostStalker posted:They’ve been doing that all season, it’s a nice QoL update of the show for the viewers at home that I really like. I feel like I haven't seen it since the byegone Richards era of the first few episodes. Maybe I'm just blind; I'll pay more attention today.
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Sep 29, 2021 16:23
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Hed posted:I feel like I haven't seen it since the byegone Richards era of the first few episodes. Maybe I'm just blind; I'll pay more attention today. It comes and goes. It wasn't on yesterday's episode.
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Sep 29, 2021 16:50
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HookShot posted:Yeah, Biyalik is a much better host but she's still a terrible person. Strong fussy librarian vibes on Bialyk's part just from the thumbnail.
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Sep 29, 2021 17:38
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Matt seems like a perfectly OK guy, but I've lost all interest in him on the show.
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Sep 30, 2021 03:47
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Matt seems like a perfectly OK guy, but I've lost all interest in him on the show. I've only seen him for 3 days and I concur. He's a little too monotone and robotic to be interesting no matter how good he is. I will say I'd probably frame every answer as what's too so I can't complain about that.
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Sep 30, 2021 03:54
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I’m just glad we have a new super champ who isn’t an enormous douchebag.
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Sep 30, 2021 05:19
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Seeing a lot more commercials for Bialik's brain pills. 
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Sep 30, 2021 05:27
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Matt seems like a perfectly OK guy, but I've lost all interest in him on the show. Same. I lost interest in him after like win number 3. He’s just so BORING. I feel bad but I really can’t wait for him to lose and I hope he doesn’t break any more records.
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Sep 30, 2021 05:37
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I genuinely like the fact that Matt is so monotonous. It's funny how even-keeled he is whether he's winning or losing, and impressive how he's been able to win in so many ways with so many hosts. His victories feel like inevitable things that somehow creep up on you. If Jeopardy were horror he'd be a classic plodding zombie.
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Sep 30, 2021 13:07
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Corin Tucker's Stalker posted:I genuinely like the fact that Matt is so monotonous. It's funny how even-keeled he is whether he's winning or losing, and impressive how he's been able to win in so many ways with so many hosts. His victories feel like inevitable things that somehow creep up on you. If Jeopardy were horror he'd be a classic plodding zombie. Nah, he's more like Jason Vorhees, just slow moving from all out appearances, and just when you think you've escaped, he's teleported behind you with a broken boom handle.
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Sep 30, 2021 13:14
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Aside from a few exceptions it seems Matt has been blessed with below average competition. Not to take ANYTHING away from him, but I noticed the first few minutes of the game always seems to be Matt with a couple thousand (or more) with another person having 0 or a couple hundred, and the third people being in the hole.
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Sep 30, 2021 17:13
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I'm impressed with his consistency especially going into the Friday games where you'd think he'd be pretty pooped. That said I'm firmly against him now because he's too successful and no longer qualifies for "underdog" or "approaching $1 million" status.
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Sep 30, 2021 18:25
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Want to see a contestant accumulate exactly $1M and then do the Dr. Evil pinky when they announce their total winnings. The next great Jeopardy milestone.
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Sep 30, 2021 18:30
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1glitch0 posted:Aside from a few exceptions it seems Matt has been blessed with below average competition. Not to take ANYTHING away from him, but I noticed the first few minutes of the game always seems to be Matt with a couple thousand (or more) with another person having 0 or a couple hundred, and the third people being in the hole. Once you get on a few game streak, the strategy of hunting from the bottom compounds itself as you've had much more time to practice the buzzer than your opponents. Matt coming in with a 30 game streak coupled with his knowledgebase gives him a much bigger opportunity to answer those questions...I don't think it really has anything to do with the competition at all. At best it makes it very difficult to actually judge his competition. I don't think it's a coincidence that his first game was easily his closest. One of the challengers last night had a good grasp on the buzzer - if he had managed one of the DJ DDs he probably had a shot (if he hadn't missed final).
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Sep 30, 2021 18:30
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Yoshi Wins posted:Want to see a contestant accumulate exactly $1M and then do the Dr. Evil pinky when they announce their total winnings. The next great Jeopardy milestone. I promise, if I somehow end up in a position to do this without jeopardizing the game win, I will absolutely do this.
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Sep 30, 2021 18:41
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OldSenileGuy posted:Same. I lost interest in him after like win number 3. He’s just so BORING. I feel bad but I really can’t wait for him to lose and I hope he doesn’t break any more records. On top of that, his interviews on the show seem extra careful to reveal anything personal about him. I don't blame him on that. I wouldn't want the internet prying too heavily into my personal life, but his stories are devoid of any interesting tidbits. So, Matt, you had an incident with a fridge during a natural disaster? Yeah, the power went out for a week while all of us were on internships.
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Sep 30, 2021 18:45
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Did he say what he's a PhD candidate in?
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Sep 30, 2021 18:47
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Poque posted:Once you get on a few game streak, the strategy of hunting from the bottom compounds itself as you've had much more time to practice the buzzer than your opponents. Yeah, it's this. Almost everyone up on that stage is using the Jeopardy-playing equipment for maybe the third time ever, while a champion is going to have a better intuition for when the button goes live. If you can build up a big lead before they become better at stealing questions from you, it's that much harder for them to catch up.
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Sep 30, 2021 18:48
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RC and Moon Pie posted:On top of that, his interviews on the show seem extra careful to reveal anything personal about him. I don't blame him on that. I wouldn't want the internet prying too heavily into my personal life, but his stories are devoid of any interesting tidbits. I feel like that's pretty normal for any long-running champion though. I mean, are you really going to have interesting stories 30+ games down the road?
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Sep 30, 2021 19:02
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haveblue posted:Yeah, it's this. Almost everyone up on that stage is using the Jeopardy-playing equipment for maybe the third time ever, while a champion is going to have a better intuition for when the button goes live. If you can build up a big lead before they become better at stealing questions from you, it's that much harder for them to catch up. True. This is been one of the funny parts of his early run when the big questions are all gone and you can see the will to live seep out of his opponents. Like even if they get everything they can't catch him.
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Sep 30, 2021 19:07
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packetmantis posted:Did he say what he's a PhD candidate in? And then he missed the Daily Double where the answer was Turing.
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Sep 30, 2021 19:59
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Yeah, the thing about Jeopardy is everyone up there knows the answer to 80% of the questions on the board at least. Exactly what 80% might differ by person, but when you get someone who goes up to 95% AND has great skills on the buzzer, that’s how you end up with a million-dollar champ. Others who have either or of those skills might win a few games, but you have to have both to be a real super champ, and no one up there is dumber than any other J! contestants. They just seem that way because they can’t buzz in.
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Sep 30, 2021 21:15
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Oct 1, 2021 00:39
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At this point just make Matt the new host. He's going to be there forever either way.
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Oct 1, 2021 00:39
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I really would not be upset if they went back to a 5 day cap again. You might be able to convince me that a 10 day cap is ok too.
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Oct 1, 2021 02:36
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I just want to see him finish breaking all of James' records because Matt continuing to dunk on him is great.
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PlasticAutomaton posted:I just want to see him finish breaking all of James' records because Matt continuing to dunk on him is great. Same
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